Wednesday is the 60th anniversary of the day President Lyndon Johnson made his way to the U.S. Capitol and, with Martin ...

The Voting Rights Act of 1965 was follow-up legislation to the Civil Rights Act passed a year earlier. In a break from ...

The justices may limit the ability of courts to take race into account when trying to remedy under-representation by minority ...

Native American tribes in North Dakota challenged a state legislative map they said dilutes their voting power. An appeals ...

Wednesday marks the 60th anniversary of the landmark legislation becoming law. Those at the epicenter of the fight for voting ...

On the 60th anniversary of the Voting Rights Act, we honor those who strived for that victory by defending its true ...

Sixty years after the Voting Rights Act became a landmark law against racial discrimination, legal challenges heading to the ...

On Aug. 6, 1965, President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the Voting Rights Act (VRA), one of the most consequential victories in ...

"This Court has been extraordinarily unfriendly to the Voting Rights Act over the last couple of decades," a voting rights expert told Newsweek.

As the Voting Rights Act turns 60, its legacy is under siege—from courts, lawmakers, and a government retreating from ...

When 1965 began, federal voting rights legislation was far from the minds of most in Washington. After all, Congress had just ...